7MS #342: Interview with Matt McCullough

7MS #342: Interview with Matt McCullough

Matt McCullough (a.k.a. Matty McFly on Slack) joined me in the studio to talk about his wild and crazy path to security. He started literally with no technical experience, but through a lot of hard work, aggressive networking and taking advantage of educational and career opportunities, Matt now rocks a SOC job. Matt and I sat down to talk about a lot of good stuff:

  • How to start an IT career as "the family IT guy"

  • Leveraging a higher education (at places like Lake Superior College to meet people of influence and start networking like a beast

  • Entry level sysadmin and helpdesk jobs are fun - great opportunities to make the most of the position, build your skills and stretch yourself outside your comfort zone

  • MSPs (Managed Service Providers) are another great way to see different clients/verticals/systems and the various requirements that go into supporting them. From there, look for opportunities to start securing those organizations, as many MSPs don't dabble heavily into the security realm.

  • If you're going to school for cybersecurity training, look for ways to leverage your status to get discounts on security training, such as with SANS

  • Competitions like CCDC are awesome. You're given a handful of servers that are full of vulnerabilities, and you essentially are tasked with defending a network against a professional group of pentesters/redteamers. You even have to deal with real-life "injections" (other random emergencies and mock customers to deal with) while you're in the thick of the battle!

  • Join local cyber clubs (or start your own)! Looking for a fun CTF to get started in a group setting? Try hacking the OWASP Juice Shop

  • Attend security conferences(or start your own)!

...more notes at 7MS.us!

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7MS #661: Baby’s First Hetzner and Ludus – Part 2

7MS #661: Baby’s First Hetzner and Ludus – Part 2

Today we continue our journey from last week where we spun up a Hetzner cloud server and Ludus.cloud SCCM pentesting range!  Topics include: Building a Proxmox Backup Server (this YouTube video was super helpful) Bridging a second WAN IP to the Hetzner/Ludus server Wrestling with the Hetzner (10-rule limit!) software firewall When attacking SCCM – you can get a version of pxethief that runs in Linux!

8 Feb 37min

7MS #660: Baby's First Hetzner and Ludus

7MS #660: Baby's First Hetzner and Ludus

I had an absolute ball this week spinning up my first Hetzner server, though it was not without some drama (firewall config frustrations and failing hard drives).  Once I got past that, though, I got my first taste of the amazing world of Ludus.cloud, where I spun up a vulnerable Microsoft SCCM lab and have started to pwn it.  Can’t say enough good things about Ludus.cloud, but I certainly tried in this episode!

1 Feb 34min

7MS #659: Eating the Security Dog Food - Part 8

7MS #659: Eating the Security Dog Food - Part 8

Today I’m excited about some tools/automation I’ve been working on to help shore up the 7MinSec security program, including: Using Retype as a document repository Leveraging the Nessus API to automate the downloading/correlating of scan data Monitoring markdown files for “last update” changes using a basic Python script

24 Jan 28min

7MS #658: WPA3 Downgrade Attacks

7MS #658: WPA3 Downgrade Attacks

Hey friends, today we cover: The shiny new 7MinSec Club BPATTY updates A talk-through of the WPA3 downgrade attack, complemented by the YouTube livestream

17 Jan 32min

7MS #657: Writing Rad Security Documentation with Retype

7MS #657: Writing Rad Security Documentation with Retype

Hello friends!  Today we’re talking about a neat and quick-to-setup documentation service called Retype.  In a nutshell, you can get Retype installed on GitHub pages in about 5 minutes and be writing beautiful markdown pages (with built-in search) immediately.  I still absolutely love Docusaurus, but I think Retype definitely gives it a run for its money.

10 Jan 20min

7MS #656: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying - Part 21

7MS #656: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying - Part 21

Happy new year friends! Today we talk about business/personal resolutions, including: New year’s resolution on the 7MinSec biz side to have a better work/life balance New training offering in the works Considering Substack as a communications platform A mental health booster that I came across mostly by accident

3 Jan 45min

7MS #655: Happy Hacking Holidays

7MS #655: Happy Hacking Holidays

Today we’re doing a milkshake of several topics: wireless pentest pwnage, automating the boring pentest stuff with cursor.ai, and some closing business thoughts at 7MinSec celebrates its 7th year as a security consultancy.  Links discussed today: AWUS036ACH wifi card (not my favorite anymore) Panda PAU09 N600 (love this one!) The very important Github issue that helped me better understand BPFs and WPA3 attacks TrustedSec article on WPA3 downgrade attacks

30 Des 202458min

7MS #654: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 67

7MS #654: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 67

Today we’ve got some super cool stuff to cover today!  First up, BPATTY v1.4 is out and has a slug of cool things: A whole new section on old-school wifi tools like airmon-ng, aireplay-ng and airodump-ng Syntax on using two different tools to parse creds from Dehashed An updated tutorial on using Gophish for phishing campaigns The cocoa-flavored cherry on top is a tale of pentest pwnage that includes: Abusing SCCM Finding gold in SQL configuration/security audits

13 Des 202441min

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